How to add new airport or heliport to FSX?

[jeffmorris]

How do I add new airport or heliport to FSX so that I can have helicopters take off and land? I know how to create 3D models but I don't know how to set up 3D models as airport or heliport.

[opaplano]

How do I add new airport or heliport to FSX so that I can have helicopters take off and land? I know how to create 3D models but I don't know how to set up 3D models as airport or heliport.

I'm not sure I really understand what it is you are wanting to do.

If you wish to just a new airport or add helipads to an existing one, try the ADE9X program - it is free and can do a great many things.

If you are wanting AI Helicopters to take off and land as they do in the real world, then that is not going to happen. FS treats choppers just like regular aircraft - they use taxiways and runways, not helipads. Helipads would be used by user flyable choppers only.

There is a great payware program from Flight1 called Heli Traffic 2009 - which will use any Choppers you have installed as AI choppers and they will take off and land on existing or added helipads just like they do in real life - vertically.

You can check it out here:

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=helitraffic

Be sure to scroll down the page and watch the demo video - an amazing bit of programming.

Perhaps you could clarify exactly what it is you have in mind.

[F70]

Jeff,

You can make a overlay airport, it's a heli airport inside the original airport.
The MAIW Apache and Chinook taking off almost vertical .
They need a runway from about 300 M.

I have also the program "Helitraffic" but it cost a lot of frame rates, but what Opaplano say is true,it's nice to see the heli's, going vertical up.

Jan

[opaplano]

Jeff,

You can make a overlay airport, it's a heli airport inside the original airport.
The MAIW Apache and Chinook taking off almost vertical .
They need a runway from about 300 M.

I have also the program "Helitraffic" but it cost a lot of frame rates, but what Opaplano say is true,it's nice to see the heli's, going vertical up.

Jan

The Heli Traffic program does not affect my frame rates at all - guess it depends upon the computer system it is set up on.

[f16jockey_2]

I have also the program "Helitraffic" but it cost a lot of frame rates

IMO that's not inherent to the program itself, but to what chopper models you use as AI (same as with "normal" AI).
Unfortunately, apart from the MAIW models, I don't know much chopper models specially made for AI.

OTOH the OP hasn't come back yet. Maybe he just wants to build a heliport for himself, with no AI.

Wim